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Keeping Up With Learning Technologists
On Thursday May 21, 2009 John Shank and I had the pleasure of co-hosting an important webcast event held by the Blended Librarians Online Learning Community. Josh Kim and Barbara Knauff, Senior Learning Technologists at Dartmouth College co-presented a webcast titled “Becoming an Educational Change Agent”. The presentation was based on an article Kim and [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 10th, 2010 under Libraries and Learning, Technology Issues.
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One Search Box to Rule Them All
This guest post by Amy Fry, Electronic Resources Coordinator at Bowling Green State University’s Jerome Library, is a timely reflection on Midwinter and on current events that have us all wondering how to strike a balance between convenient access and dependence on a few powerful vendors.
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Discovery services, as you can imagine, were a big topic [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on January 22nd, 2010 under Conference Blogging, Technology Issues.
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Real-Time Web Likely To Shift User Expectations
There are some interesting new real-time web developments, and I can see how the way in which information is being delivered in real time could very well shift user expectations for obtaining content from academic libraries. While we have some traditional types of electronic databases, such as Lexis/Nexis, that provide searchable news that is updated [...]
Posted by StevenB on January 7th, 2010 under Technology Issues, Worth Reading.
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Faculty Blog Round-Up: PowerPoint
Among academic bloggers, yet another battle is raging in the PowerPoint wars.
Margaret Soltan, English professor and the venerable curmudgeon of University Diaries, links to a student’s blog to show how PowerPoint enables and encourages shoddy teaching.
Fellow English professor Alan Jacobs agrees, pointing to students’ sense of entitlement that results from PowerPoint.
Jonathan Rees, professor of history, [...]
Posted by Laura Wimberley on November 15th, 2009 under Faculty, Teaching, Technology Issues.
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Lessons from ECAR – “Real Books and People”
The new ECAR study on students and technology has just come out (thanks for the tip via Collib-L, Bill Drew!) and as usual, there are interesting findings. Nearly 90% of students come to college with a laptop now, and an even higher percentage of them use the library’s Website at least once a week. [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on October 25th, 2009 under Technology Issues.
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